Let 'Em Have It

Let 'Em Have It
Let 'Em Have It
	Still with Eric Linden and Joyce Compton
Directed by	Sam Wood
Written by	Joseph Moncure Mach; Elmer Harris
Produced by	Edward Small
Starring	Richard Arlen; Virginia Bruce; Bruce Cabot
Edited by	Grant Whytock
Production; company	Reliance Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	1935;
Country	United States
Language	English

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 American gangster film directed by Sam Wood. The film was also known under the title False Faces in the United Kingdom and The Legion of Valour in Australia.^[1]^[2]

Plot

An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Cast

Richard Arlen as Mal Stevens
Virginia Bruce as Eleanor Spencer
Alice Brady as Aunt Ethel
Bruce Cabot as Joe Keefer
Harvey Stephens as Van Rensseler
Eric Linden as Buddy Spencer
Joyce Compton as Barbara
Gordon Jones as Tex
J. Farrell MacDonald as Mr. Keefer
Bodil Rosing as Mrs. Keefer
Paul Stanton as Department Chief
Hale Hamilton as Ex-Senator Reilly
Robert Emmett O'Connor as Police Captain
Dorothy Appleby as Lola
Barbara Pepper as Milly
Paul Fix as Sam

Production

The film was shot at Pathe Studios.^[3] It was one of a series of movies that came out around this time about "G-Men".^[4] with the film giving the audience a look an FBI Headquarters and the training of a Special Agent.^[5]

References

^ Let 'Em Have It at the TCM Movie Database
^ Newspaper Article at Trove
^ "Mystery to Be Screened: While Patient Slept to Open Thursday". Los Angeles Times. Mar 4, 1935. p. 19.
^ Woolfenden, John R. (Apr 14, 1935). "Close Finish Looms in Race Between Studios' "G-Men": Five Pictures, All Dealing With Exploits of Federal Agents, About to Hit Screen Together, Start New Cycle Close Finish Seen in Race". Los Angeles Times. p. A1.
^ Powers, Richard Gid (1 Nov 1983). G-men, Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 86.